Sentences with phrase «small reactor plant»

TVA has not made any decisions about building a small reactor plant, however, Bailey added.

Not exact matches

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

However, researchers say that constructing a fusion power plant has proven to be a daunting task, in no small part because there have been no materials that could survive the grueling conditions found in the core of a fusion reactor.

Next Steps The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is working with the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group, to revamp the licensing procedure for nuclear power plants to include new rules tailored to small modular reactors.

«All the designs for small modular reactors eliminate the features in larger plants that can contribute to a potential accident,» he says.

These plants include four small gas - graphite reactors at Bilibino, four RBMK gas - graphite reactors at St Petersburg and Kursk, and four VVER 440/230 pressurised water reactors at Kola and Novovoronezh (see Map).

And gas plants can be built in small units in only three or four years, as compared with six or eight for mammoth reactors.

In order to optimize for the action of the electric field on the biogas process comprehensive studies on pilot plants but also on small lab reactors are conducted.

Now they are part of CENG's small «fleet,» along with the Calvert Cliffs reactors in southern Maryland — three different plants with different technologies, different histories and individual workforce cultures.

Scott Burnell, public affairs officer at the NRC, said NuScale's application is the first to propose a nuclear power plant designed with several small reactors instead of one large one.

The small footprint of the NuScale Power Modules plant and the low profile of the reactor building due to below - grade placement of the NuScale Power Modules and spent fuel pool offer a greatly reduced target size relative to traditional LWRs.

NuScale Power has created a new kind of nuclear power plant - a smaller, scalable pressurized water reactor with passive safety features, allowing shutdown and self - cooling, with no operator action, no AC or DC power, and no external water.

He has also been intimately involved with new plant development and deployment including advanced light water reactors, small modular reactors and advance non-light water reactors.

Response: SMR - 160 is a small modular pressurized water nuclear reactor power plant that does not rely on any pumps or motors to remove heat from the nuclear fuel, for all normal and accident scenarios.

The size of the reactor's nuclear core is a fraction of those of large conventional nuclear power plants, with an attendant small radioactive source term.

Small modular reactors offer several advantages over traditional technologies, including the ability to purchase and construct them in a modular way, decreased up - front capital costs through simpler, less complex plants, and a reduced staff complement.

Response: Unlike currently operating nuclear reactors, SMR - 160 has been designed to store the used fuel produced over the entire operating lifetime of the plant in subterranean cavities (formally known as Holtec's HI - STORM UMAX system licensed by the USNRC), occupying a small parcel of land in the plant's backyard.

Response: Despite the small land area of the plant, SMR - 160 will accrete a small fraction of the dose of a large contemporary reactor at its site boundary because of the many dose mitigation features built into its design, viz:

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is currently involved in pre-licensing vendor design reviews - an optional service to assess of a nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 300 MWe.

Filed under: Treaties and agreements, Plant licensing, New build, Research and development, Small Modular Reactors, Canada, USA, Innovation

Small modular reactors - which are approximately one - third the size of current nuclear power plants - have compact, scalable designs that are expected to offer a host of safety, construction and economic benefits.

These small modular reactors are essentially scaled - down nuclear plants.

Called Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), these plants, would be inherently cheaper to build and safer to operate than conventional plants.

Smaller, modular reactors can be built much faster and cheaper than traditional large - scale nuclear power plants.

And if the evolutionary approach does lower the risk of a given small modular reactor, who can say whether reduced risks in individual power plants are outweighed by an overall global risk of dispersing a much greater number of nuclear reactors across the planet?

We are exceptionally well - versed in the next generation of nuclear power plants, including Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).